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Republicans are considered cold-hearted?

How is it cold hearted to say - "I'll help you if you're willing to help yourself" and then provide a hand up so they can make their own decisions about what they want and need?

Isn't THAT being kind? Isn't it less compassionate to keep providing just enough of what you think people need for basic survival and keeping them stuck there for generations?

Update:

Some ideas of a hand up:

One idea that Gingrich proposed in the debates would be to give jobs to kids in high school and paying them - having them help out with working in the kitchen, helping to clean up, etc. - so they learn how great it is to work and get a paycheck.

Habitat for Humanity is another great hand up program. Participants need to help build their own home and volunteers come from all over to help them with the project and get them settled.

Providing grants and scholarships to people who otherwise might not be able to get an education.

Another Gingrich suggestion - providing training and education opportunities for people who are unemployed.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Conservatives, on the whole, have been demonstrated overwhelmingly to give more of their own money to charity than liberals do. Being generous with other people's money isn't compassion as far as I am concerned, but because Republicans object to this practice, they are somehow considered "cold-hearted."

  • 9 years ago

    Ron Paul is the kindest of all.

    He wants to hand Americans back their Liberty!

    There could not be a better gift than our Liberty!

    Gingrich did NOT provide Habitat for Humanity.

    Or grants and educational opportunities

    Or training programs

    Kids already work at schools for a paycheck.

  • Power
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    They don't say they will help people if they help themselves. The say the rich need more money & the poor can die. They might smile or use other words but we all communicate telepathicially & you know & I know they are cold hearted but if they can do something to get something they will do it.

    Gingrich married his teacher so he didn't have to work his way through colledge. She supported him then he dumped her for another women. Then he dumped that women saying she was not pretty enough to be a President's wife. Now he has this ugly plastic Barbie doll cause some people still that that is authentic beauty.

    Kids who want to make money always find opportunities they don't need Gingrichs help. There have always been neighbors who will hire a kid to do household duties so he needs to stop it with his BS.

  • 9 years ago

    gingrich draws his thinking ,ronald reagan, from ideas of

    william f buckley,,,,who,for years,was rush n limbaugh,hannity,mark levin,baroque harpsichord player,,all wrapped in one.

    the reasonable concept,was what every reasonable parent wants to teach the rugrats,,to pick up& clean his room,help around the house,assist the older folks.

    in high schools,grammar schools,,it costs immense additional tax paid labor to clean graffitti,pick up litter,assist the younger kids,,summer work for a few weeks,maybe after classes,teaches them responsibility,tax money,so more gadgets and new fangled audio visual aids might be bought.

    in state or other nursing homes,hospitals,having kids help patients with personal care,reading to residents,a dozen other things that help a kid to grow up.

    liberal objections to this,not implicitly acknowledged,are it would take away union scale jobs ,private,and state government unions.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i understand a woman who's a finished republican, completely hates people who're devoid of in spite of, and she or he has extreme wellness issues herself and she or he's married to a wealthy guy yet she only utilized for incapacity. yet she become for removing the corporation that she's only utilized too, and she or he's clever has had extreme point positions in firms. finished dam hypocrite! pass determine!

  • 9 years ago

    Republicans aren't known to say "I'll help you if you're willing to help yourself".

    They're more like "I'll help you if you're rich. Not rich? Sucks for you, give me your money!"

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Nice talking points.

    Too bad reality isn't on your side.

  • 9 years ago

    problem is when they reach for that hand up they chop off your hand. Can you please expand on the plan to give the hand up.

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